Loom-temple



J. BARNES. LOOM TEMPLR/ (No Model.)

No. 403,028. Patented May 7, 1889.

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NITED STATES ATnNT OFFICE.

JOSEPH BARNES, OF FALL RIVER, ASSIGNOR TO TIIE DUTCI-IER TEMPLE COMPANY, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS.

LOOM-TEM PLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,028, dated May 7, 1889.

Application iiled June 2l., 1888. Serial No. 277,741. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH BARNES, of Fall River, county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Loom- Temples, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Much trouble and inconvenience are now eX- perienced in quickly adjusting loom-temples to the width of the clot-h being woven and to the height of the lay and reed and in securing the supports for the temple-stand firmly in such position; and so, also, much difficulty and frequent accidents happen because of the loosening` of the clamping-screw employed to hold the stand in place above the breast-beam.

My present invention seeks to overcome these diiiiculties; and it consists in a slotted bar of dovetail shape in cross-section and adapted to be attached to the inner side of the breast-beam and a slide grooved vertically at its face, adjustably iitted to the said bar, combined with a vertically-adjustable cross-slide having a shelf overlapping the breast-beam and grooved for the reception of the templestand, and with bolts to hold the two slides and temple-stand in adjusted position, the bolt employed to secure the said stand in place also, as herein shown, passing through the slot in the bar and the slot in the crossslide and acting to hold each of them in adj usted position; also, in the combination, with a temple-stand having a series of notches or projections and a holding portion in which the stand is placed, of means for clamping the said stand in place and a locking device to engage one of the said notches according to the position in which the stand is placed, the said locking device supplementing the clamping means to prevent accidental forward movement of the stand in the said holding portion when for any reason the screw used to clamp the stand in place works loose and fails to hold the stand in place.

Figure l in front elevation shows a sufficient portion of a loom with my improvement added to enable my invention to be understood. Fig. 2 is a section. of Fig. l in the line @c :11; Fig. 3, a top or plan view of the devices shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a partial section in the line 002 Fie'. l and Fic. 5 a artial seci :s i a a P tion in the line x3 in Fig. 3.

The loom-frame A, breast-beam B, and loomtemple O, including the head and shank and the sand-roll D, with its shaft D', are and may be all as usual. The long bar a, having a long slot, ct, and at its opposite ends feet, as c2, (see Fig. 2,) and made of dovetail shape in cross-section, is connected to the inner side of the breast-beam by bolts as. The bar a receives upon it the slide b,having at its rear side a dovetailed groove to iit the bar ce, the front side of the slide having a vertical groove, preferably of dovetail shape, to receive the cross-slide b', the latter having at its top a horizontallyextended lip or projection, b2, which in turn is provided with a dovetailshaped groove for the reception of the templestand d, in which slides, in usual manner, the shank or bar c of the temple C. The stand d is slotted in usual manner for the reception of the usual clamping device, (shown as a screw, d,) by which the stand is held in place in the shank-holding portion b2 of the crossslide b. The clamping-screw CZ frequently becomes loose, and then the shank slips forward and the temple strikes the reed or tips over. To obviate this difficulty should the screw'become loose by wear, I have provided the temple-stand with a series of notches, c, one of which is engaged by the locking device e', (shown as a hooked finger connected to the portion h2 by a screw, 2,) according to the position in which the bar is left when clamped in adj usted position by the screw d.

The temple-stand is of dovetail shape in cross-section, (see Fig. 5,) and enters a correspondingly-shaped groove in the portion b2. The bolt f, to hold the slide b in adjusted position on the bar c, is also extended through a vertical slot in the cross-slide b', the one bolt thus serving to hold both slides in adjusted position.

l. The combination, with the temple-stand having the series of notches or proj ectionsand the holding portion bg, in which the stand is tit-ted, of means for clamping the said stand in adjusted position in the said holding portion and a locking device to engage one of the said notches or projections, according to the IOO Io stand and with the boltto hold the cross-Slide in the slide 1) and the latter in place on the bar B, substantially :is described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this speoioaton in the presence of two subscribing' witnessee JOSEPH BARNES.

lfVtnesses:

F. J. DUTCHER, JOHN SULLIVAN. 

